Anne Fleischman Bernays (born September 14, 1930) is an American

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, editor, and teacher.

Life

Bernays attended the

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on New York City's

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, graduating in 1948. A 1952 graduate of

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, she was managing editor of ''discovery'', a literary magazine, before moving from

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, Massachusetts, in 1959 when she began her career as a novelist. Bernays has been published widely in national magazines and journals and is a long-time teacher of writing at

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, Holy Cross, Harvard Extension,

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, and MFA Program at

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. She is a founder of PEN/New England and a member of the Writer's Union. She serves as chairman of the board of Fine Arts Work Center in

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and co-president of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Family

Her father, Edward L. Bernays, was a nephew of

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and is known as "the father of Public Relations." Bernays appeared in the

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series ''

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'' (2002) where she was critical of her father's shaky commitment to democracy and skill at manipulation. Her mother, Doris E. Fleischman, was a writer and

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. Both her parents were nonpracticing, highly assimilated, wealthy German-American Jews. She was married to the biographer and editor Justin Kaplan until his death in 2014; they lived in

, and

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, and had three daughters, Susanna Kaplan Donahue, Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein, and Polly Anne Kaplan Tigges; and six grandchildren.

Selected novels

* ''Growing up Rich'' Little, Brown, 1975, . ( Edward Lewis Wallant Award) * ''Professor Romeo'' reprint, University Press of New England, 1997, . (a ''

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'' "Notable Book of the Year")
''Trophy House''
Simon and Schuster, 2005, . She is co-author of three non-fiction books: * ''What If?'' (with Pamela Painter) HarperCollins Publishers, 1990, . * ''The Language of Names'' (with Justin Kaplan) Simon & Schuster, 1999, .
''Back Then''
(with Justin Kaplan). reprint HarperCollins, 2003,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernays, Anne American women non-fiction writers Boston University faculty Boston College faculty Harvard University staff Lesley University faculty Barnard College alumni American fiction writers American people of Austrian-Jewish descent Jewish American non-fiction writers Jewish American novelists 1930 births Living people Brearley School alumni Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Massachusetts Freud family Bernays family